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1. When your part of picking out the new house is based on yard size and road visibility. (yes I vetoed one because of the hedgerow along the roadway)
2. When you do decide on one, you immediately start contemplating outdoor lighting power requirements.
3. When packing the moving truck it goes; 1 box of dishes, 2 boxes of Christmas decorations, 1 chair and a blow-mold to sit in it, 1 couch OK that gives us a place to put the boxes of glass ornaments................
True Story, and I swear I will never go thru it again...........
My wife keeps talking about where we will move and what kind of house we will buy when we retire and all I think about is frontage, elevation and overall presitation.
You just need to screen the buyer of your house, when it's time, to make sure they'll carry on your work and then move across the street.
(Bill's house/display is across the street from a nursing home. His massive display and hard work gives joy to those that need it most. I dream of spending my last years looking out the window at a house like Bills).
Will they still be around in fifty years when he's old enough to retire?
(Glenn's a teenager in spirit, and has a long way to go before he's "old"!)
Jeff
Edit: and I love this thread! It's nice to see it pop up all the time. You know it's gone too far when you see this post and re-read the whole thing when you're about a month behind schedule getting ready for the Holidays!
Last edited on Tuesday October 9th, 2007 12:23 am by jeffmill
you know this christmas light thing has gone to far when
you turn on your christmas display and the neighborhood lights goes dim until your local power company scurrys to get another generator turbine up and running.
You know the Christmas light thing has gone too far (in some people's opinion, not necessarily your own) when folks start driving by your house 2 weeks before Thanksgiving just to see what you're putting up this year.
Or, when contemplating your own funeral plans, you decide there should be some ceremonial "dimming of the lights" at your service.
Last edited on Tuesday November 27th, 2007 05:26 pm by Martha Kleder
Entropy wrote: ... you , at this very moment have in your pocket either a christmas light bulb, a fragment of a shiny UL cord tag, loose staples or a green wire tie.
Go ahead, look...... See? I told you so!
... you know what a shiny UL cord tag looks like. i have a fuse...does that count? lol
I have two styles of minilight bulb bases in mine along with one red color cap I found on the lawn that I was unable to match with a bare bulb last night.
You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far when...
you are sorting through lights at various stores and people come up to you asking where the 20ct clear mini lights are.
This happened to me today. I was at Rite Aid trying to find White lights with white wire a lady assumed I worked there since I was moving boxes 10 at a time search through them. I told her I didn't work there but I that I could help her find them. I found them in about 10 seconds and she was grateful.
When the icicle lights are dancing to the music, the window posters are glowing great at night, the garage door covers came in and will be put up this weekend. All is going well Then a deer runs across our back deck, four racoons are eating my cat food on the front porch and a armadillar runs across the yard. The lady at the bank says my house looks good, and when I asked her when she saw it she said saturday around lunch. I bet the lights were really humming about then Also my leg lamp is burning nicely in the front window. I just want to run out in the front yard and holler Merry Christmas Mr. Potter. Ain't life great. Maybe I ain't worth killing but ain't it great to be alive.
DUB
____________________ I don't care to grow old, but I never want to grow up
You know this Christmas light thing has gone too far when...
1. your wife wakes you up because your having a dream about your christmas light display with a smile on your face and your wife thinks the dream is about her. OOPS ! " True story"
2. when you apply for a job at Home Depot or Lowes just to get a employee discount on chrismtas lights and decorations.
3. Whe you run out of power outlets for your display and you sneak into your neighber's back yard to plug in extension cords running from their house to your display.
4. when the power company sends you a check to buy back the electricity you are using because they have a power shortage.
5. when you are writing a christmas present list for things you want, and all you have on the list is christmas lights, controllers and extension cords, instead of new cloths because you jeans have holes in the knees, new shoes because the bottom of your shoes are flapping and falling off.
6. when people are coming to your house to buy lights off you because you baught out every set of lights at the hardware store.
Last edited on Sunday December 23rd, 2007 08:54 pm by Travis
